What are your thoughts on the Gunbreaker's new charge animation?

[Baxcel]

It's 99% because they wanted to free up weave space on DRK and GNB. PLD and WAR don't need it, because they both have total of like 6 weaves in burst, while DRK has somewhere between 12 and 15 currently, and GNB has I think 9-12 (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not that familiar with GNB). If they wanted to remove damage from WAR and PLD gap closers, they would need to introduce additional damage oGCDs because otherwise their burst would be extremely dry.
And honestly, I think it's good that some gap closers remain with damage. Broadly speaking, it's not a terrible idea.

The GNB damage on gap closer wasn't even that tightly held.. No mercy into both dots into bullet combo finish with double down and blasting zone and then refill bullet skill(at work can't remember skill name) and burst strike>continue>gap closers.. repeat twice then finish it all with just burst and continue.. all easily done under the no mercy buff..

[CKNovel]

The GNB damage on gap closer wasn't even that tightly held.. No mercy into both dots into bullet combo finish with double down and blasting zone and then refill bullet skill(at work can't remember skill name) and burst strike>continue>gap closers.. repeat twice then finish it all with just burst and continue.. all easily done under the no mercy buff..

Exclusively against a dummy, yes it's not hard.

In high-end where you needed to press 4 mitigation or just wipe and start over the 15 minutes try, it's another story.
There are many cases where on top of your full-burst, you need to press 3/4 mitigations, taunt and shirk and sometimes tank stance.
And don't miss any of these otherwise you would drift something.

Of course it's doable, but after long hours of raiding, it becomes tiring.

[Kreyd]

fine for me, not a fan of press dash to optimize damage in burst window, also when GNB released i feel using a LB from 8 for a dash was weird, rough divine can be add back in GNB tool later on with something more useful

PS: more to add animation of old rough divine has nothing to resemble FF8 at all, rough divine in FF8 is an uppercut and result in squall jump to the air

So true. Always bugged me that rough divide doesn't look like rough divide.

[SeverianLyonesse]

As long as it is still called Rough Divide I won't mind as much? Just seems a shame to be removing one of Squall's Limit Breaks just for the sake of all these non-damaging gap closers.

Also, of all the tanks, GNB deserves the damaging gap closer anyway. It's the DPS tank.

[Teno]

It takes 2 oGCD slots every burst window for just 300 potency total, it's definitely the best choice of skill to remove.

It's not, and not everything has to do with potency. It's a great ogcd to optimize a little bit more to squeeze out dps, yet you don't lose too much if you miss your windows. Satisfies both minmaxers and casuals. Kinda like shadowflare was for scholar.

[Ruvycontria]

I don't like either, especially after realizing that warrior and paladin are exactly the same. My reasoning is the same as kaiten, it's a job identity issue. It's an odd change. If they are removing the damage, just remove the damage, you don't need to change the animation. And before anyone tries to say, buT iT's aN AtTacK wiTh ThE WeaPoN, we literally have repelling shot in the game. FFS they've done it before.

Absolutely. And the new one (also DRK) looks really awkward.
I want the rollback of Rough Divide.
Or what about remaining the older gap closer with 2 charges, and add the new gap closer with 1 charge as WAR has Onslaught with 3 charges.

[Ramiee]

I mean it's a gun sword.
Why aren't you shooting behind you and using your recoil to move, sure it's goofy but so is a gun sword.